Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-11-03
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Davenport is promised gas plant
which win furnish fuel for factories of
all kinds at price that will drye coal
ont of the market
In Plymouth county both the republi.
can and democratic candidates for county
superintendent are ladies. The present
superintendent is Miss Byrun, who is a
candidate for reelection on the democrat
ic ticket.
A special from Dubuque, Oct 81, says:
A week ago Saturday night the residence
Of Mrs, ID. S. Wilson was entered by
burglars. Her daughter Mrs. Brock, was
chloroformed and the premises robbed of
several hundred dollars worth Of iewelry
and other valuables This morning when
the front door was opened the family were
agreeably surprised to find everything
taken by the burglars was lying on the
steps. There was also an apologize note
stating that the burglars were sorry they
had stolen the articles and asked for.
giveness for the same. Taken altogether
1t is one of the strangest burglaries that
nos SNVi oSSullCl III tllS CITY.
The school reports from the south.
eastern portion of the State show that
while the school census is increasing in
the cities, in the country it is decreasing.
The small farms are being sold to those
who have large farms, and with the large
price received large farms are being
purchased where land is cheaper.
Superintendent c, f. Meek, Of the
Wabash Railway, Des Moinos & North
western Railway and the ST. Louis, Des
Moines & Northern Railway, at Des
Moines, has been appointed to the high
and responsible position of General
Manager of the three consultations now
operated as one line from Deuver, Colo
RADIO, to Fort Worth, Texas, with his
headquarters at Denver. These lines are
the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway.
the Denver, Texas & Gulf Railway, and
the Denver Texas & Fort Worth Rail.
way. As manager of railways in Iowa
Mr.. Meek has been very popular, both
among employees and the public, and
while all will be pleased to know that his
abilities as a railroad operator are APP
preciated yet Iowa people will feel
regret at his departure to his new field of
usefulness. He resigns the management
of three important railways in Iowa, for
a still greater and more important re-
sponsibility in a newer but rapidly de-
veloping country, as the General Manager
of present extent of $50 miles, with an
additional mileage which will aggregate
1900 miles. Mr.. Meek on severing his
connection with his former employees in
Iowa was gratefully remembered by them
in the presentation of handsome testi-
monals of their esteem.
A dispatch from Washington says that
bids were opened by the supervising
architect of the treasury for the iron of
the building at Des Moines The bidders
were the Mothwell Iron and Steel COM
pany, Logan, Ohio, $29, 800; the Marshall
Foundry and Construction company, Pitts
burg, $4,000: Bakerell s. Mullan, SALEM,
Ohio, 500, 444; Phoenix Iron company,
Trenton. N. j., $26, SAT.
The King Electric Medical College of
Des Moines having asked the District
Court for writ of error to review the
action of the State Board of Medical
Examiners in refusing to recognize the
diplomas of that college as emitting the
graduates to practice medicine without
any further examination, the matter was
submitted to Judge Conrad. A demurrer
to the petition was filed by the Board
and sustained. thus fully confirming the
right Of the Board to refuse to recognize
the diplomas of any college they may
consider as insufficient to entitle the hold
ere to practice medicine under the laws
of the State,
J. G. Yetzer's hardware and implement
establishment, r. S. McGeehan's grocery
store and the Free Lance printing Office,
all of Atlantic, were destroyed by fire on
the morning Of Oct 90. Yctzers loss is
sec, 1000, insurance SO, 900. f. III. Whit
ney's building, occupied by Mcclellan,
cost So. 500; no insurance; the G. A. II.
hall was in that building and the G. A.
r. post lose $500; insurance $3.50. The
buildings were all wooden. The heat
was intense across the street. where plate
glass worth $500 was destroyed.
Hon. Isaac Brandt, receiver of the de-
funct Monarch Insurance Co., of Des
Moines, has commenced suit against the
directors of the company to recover S32
900, being the amount of the two notes
for Sl0,0 each and $4,000 in money
which were among the visible assets of
the company when it was examined by
the State Auditor the last time. He has
also commenced suit against the stock
holders of the company to compel them
opay up the stock subscribed and which
was not paid, amounting to S75, 600.
The Wabash railway is building a new
round house at Des Moines. A stone
foundation is being laid and the structure
will be entirely of brick and iron. The
engines to be housed are too valuable
property to be again risked in building
liable to burn, and the new engine house
will be fire-proof. 1t will have fifteen
stalls for engines and ample room for re
pair machinery and it is expected to have
it completed before the weather gets very
cold.
Indanola, Oct 25: johnson Mctcalf,
Lying four miles northeast of this place,
shot himself this morning at o. clock
Mr.. Metcalf has not been well for some
time, and it is supposed he was insane.
He died at 1890 this afternoon.
A shocking occurrence took place at
Union, Oct "a, as sequence of years of
occasional bestial drunkenness. Richard
Weston, shoemaker, was going down
stairs with lighted lamp, while intoxica-
ted. When part way down he fell, the lamp
exploded, his clothing became ignited and
he was so badly burned that he will die.
Weston is an Englishman, about so years
old and has lived in semi-seclusion and
the utmost squalor for several years.
ekeing out miserable existence, which
was only relieved by these periodical
sprees. He has no relatives in this country
30 far as known. At 2 p. IN. Weston's